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Definition of Misstates
1. misstate [v] - See also: misstate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misstates
Literary usage of Misstates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, William Frierson Cooper, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1894)
"Where the bill misstates the names of defendants. * 2110 The joint and several
answer of JL, in the bill called RL, and of CE, in the bill called DE, ..."
2. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1920)
"Same, where the Bill misstates the Names of Defendants. [Caption.] The answer of
ED, one of the above-named defendants, and the wife of [the defendant] CD, ..."
3. A Refutation of Arianism: Or, A Defence of the Plenary Inspiration of the by John Paul (1828)
"... found in their writings for centuries past; but he .misrepresents, misstates,
and puts in their mouths, sentiments which they never entertained, ..."